After returning to the Sect, Mo Hua pondered over Master Gu's words once more.
Without delving into the intricate divisions of the Tao Cultivation industry, in a certain sense, Formation media is a Spiritual Artifact, and a Spiritual Artifact is also Formation media.
As his own Cultivation advanced and his Divine Sense grew stronger, his understanding of Formations deepened, and the technique of Drawing Ground into Formation using "earth" as the medium became increasingly skillful.
The reliance on common "Formation media" wasn't that great.
Spiritual Artifacts are such that if you have them, you use them; if not, it doesn't really matter.
Mo Hua was not particularly dependent on them either.
However, if one wishes to broadly expand the use of Formations, or to bring out the utmost function of Formations, one has to consider the compatibility between Formations and external "media."
The scope of this is quite broad.